[Forwarded from COVID-19 Up]
Several U.S. Courts Are Now Questioning Biden’s Power to Impose COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate on Contractors

???@COVID19Up: A U.S. appeals court panel on Thursday (July 21) wrestled (https://www.reuters.com/legal/....government/court-pro with whether President Biden had the power to bar government agencies from contracting with businesses that do not require COVID-19 vaccines for their workers, as three other courts weigh the same question.

A three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, Ohio, heard oral arguments in the Biden administration's bid to revive the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, which was blocked by a Kentucky federal judge last year in a challenge by three Republican-led states.

That decision only applied to Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee, which had sued over the mandate. But a federal judge in Georgia last year blocked the policy nationwide in a lawsuit brought by other states, and the 11th Circuit heard arguments in the administration's appeal of that injunction in April.

The 5th and 8th Circuits are also considering appeals from rulings that blocked the COVID-19 vaccine mandate in about a dozen other states.

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